Never Let Me Go Context Notes

NEVER LET ME GO

Ishiguro's Life, Beliefs and Works

Ishiguro’s psychologically complex works draw on the tradition of the realist novel. He counts such authors as Charlotte Brontë, Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky among his literary influences.

The narrators in all of Ishiguro’s novels are characteristically unreliable, often omitting key details and restraining their emotions. 

Never Let Me Go is Ishiguro’s sixth novel. Blending psychological realism with science fiction, it takes place in a parallel universe in 1990s England where human cloning is an accepted practice.

Ishiguro was Japanese therefore he had no religious beliefs, he was Atheist.

Most of Ishiguro's work is based on 'dramatic irony', this means that the reader knows more about the narrator's life than the narrator does

He wanted the novel to be a way to get a message across to the reader about their Anagnorisis.

Science

Ishiguro began writing Never Let Me Go in…